Tracking - Education Week on the Web
Should schools -- as the engine of democracy -- provide relatively similar curricula for all students? Or should they instead sort students by skill levels and prepare them for their different roles as adults? A discussion of the pros and cons of tracking,
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Traffic Jam - Math Forum
Equal numbers of people face each other with one open slot between them. Everybody faces the open slot. If there are 6 people there will be 7 slots, 6 of
which must always have people in them. People must attempt to exchange places without turning around.
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Transformations - David A. Reid
A transformation is a one-to-one mapping on a set of points. The most common transformations map the points of the plane onto themselves, in a way which keeps all lengths the same. These transformations are called isometries. Another common sort of transformation
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Transum - John Tranter
Activities, puzzles, problems, investigations, "starters of the day," "shine + write" prompts to project on a whiteboard for students to then write on as part of a whole class exposition, Flash games, and more.
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Transversal of a Latin Square - Jay's Corner
A transversal in a Latin Square is a collection of positions, one from each row and one from each column, so that the colors that are in these positions are all different. This page shows an example of a transversal in a 4x4 Latin square
See also Transversals
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The Travelling Salesman's Problem - Manu Konchady
A trucking or delivery company is focused on optimum delivery cost. This can be achieved by using a system which determines the best highway route for each load. An optimum highway route can be displayed on a map. A route with 16 nodes is used to test
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Triangles and Pyramids: Playing Math! - Hollis Easter
A "teachable" on the construction of free-standing pyramids made "by folding a single piece of paper, with only a single piece of tape to hold them together...." This blog post goes on to include photos of a net, diagrams, and "things to investigate":
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Tricky Crossings - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Have you heard the one about an itinerant entertainer traveling with a wolf, a goat, and a basket of cabbages? The showman comes to a river and finds a small boat that holds only himself and one passenger. For obvious reasons, he can't leave the wolf
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Tricky Dice - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The game involves four specially numbered dice. You let your opponent pick any one of the four dice. You choose one of the remaining three dice. Each player tosses his or her die, and the higher number wins the throw. Amazingly, in a game involving 10
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Trimathlon
Site centered around a book featuring activities from number theory and geometry beyond the realm of the typical school curriculum. The site features a discussion forum, a sample online game (with others promised), and a periodic puzzler with hint.
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Truel in the Sun - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Brilliant sunshine bakes a huddled row of ramshackle, weather-beaten buildings lining a dusty thoroughfare. Two gunfighters slam out of a decrepit saloon and stalk toward their posts at either end of the street. Facing each other, they prepare to draw
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Tumblehome Learning
Makers of educational products such as Lost in Tangrams and -- through a partnership with TERC, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) -- Mixing in Math (MiM) cards, gameboards, and books.
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TurnOnCCMath.net - Confrey, Jere, et al.
Learning trajectories that unpack the K-8 Common Core State Standards (CCSSS) for Mathematics from the standpoint of student learning, and elaborate the underlying scientific research in mathematics education. Click on a hexagon or a trajectory for detailed
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Tutor.com - Tutor.com, Inc.
One-to-one real-time help from professional subject experts and librarians. Students looking for homework help may check if their local library or after-school center offers free tutor.com tutoring; try tutor.com personal online tutoring free for a week;
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The Tutor House: math - Adrianne Meldrum
Tutoring elementary and middle school students, Meldrum would often "hunt the Internet for tips and helps on teaching concepts to my students. I find great stuff, but I wanted somewhere central that other tutors like me could find them...." Every Wednesday
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TutorMatch - TutorMatch.com
A tutoring referral service for educators and students. Professional and skilled tutors offer academic assistance and skills development, geared to the learning styles of their students. Tutoring options include face to face meetings or individualized
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TutorNEXT - tutorNEXT, Inc.
One-on-one, individualized tutoring sessions in math and English. An enrichment program in math, and free printable math worksheets, are also available. Full listing of services on the site.
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TutorTeddy.com
Online tutoring sessions across grades in arithmetic, algebra, statistics, probability, calculus, geometry, and trigonometry. The TutorTeddy.com site also freely offers more than a hundred chalkboard video lectures and worked problems.
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